Because humanity has nothing else to rely on.
...
Returning focus to the current Source Star, the nine frozen elders stretch the real thousand-year history into a false ten thousand years within the High Rank citizens' cognition. They disguise memories through thought engraving, write a history of lies, and hide the fact that everyone originates from frozen embryos a thousand years ago, all just to make the entire matter more palatable to the senses.
This way, whether Citizen or outsider, although they live lives as tools, at least it's not explicitly stated, giving them a psychological step down.
Perhaps, before Ren Zhong arrived, those old ice blocks occasionally awakened and looked down upon the world, experiencing god-like ecstasy akin to a Creator God.
Of course, now this group of "Creator Gods" has been completely crushed by Ren Zhong.
Ren Zhong's gaze drifted to the blood-smeared fabric covering the ground.
